Wii U

Review copies were sent out. Super Mario Maker doesn't release for another 2 weeks.

edited 29th Aug '15 5:16:00 PM by Halberdier17

Ok.

Two weeks... Man how time flies by!

See, I disagree with all of those opinions. Firstly, I really like the music, even own the ost. It's fantastic, a very different sound. Second, it's not a generic space opera because it's not following the trends set by the big headliners—not even Gundam. If you'd said it looked like Gundam that would be different, but even that's not true because of how the story is structured.

People responded really well to the Affinity Chart vignettes and the Colony 6 reconstruction. XCX is about building your colony and meeting the people who live there, to the point that the main story is just one more branch of it. Anyone who just rushes through the critical path is going to miss most of the story, because fighting off the big evil aliens is only a small part of the game.

I meant the setting is more of a typical space opera setting. Alien races, mysterious planet, intergalatic politics, ect.

XC had one of the most original settings I've seen in my life, what with the bodies of two continent-sized titans and all, and the mix of sci-fi, fantasy, and cosmic horror tropes.

The OST is a matter of opinion, of course. I'm just not fond of vocals in my game tracks. Except in Metal Gear Rising.

edited 29th Aug '15 5:32:46 PM by Anomalocaris20

You really shouldn't be concerned about the breadth of tropes involved in XCX. Really, really shouldn't be.

As for the music... XCX has vocal tracks that I'd say are better than everything but Stranger I Remain.

Oh, yes, I don't doubt that I'll be pleasantly surprised once I get to the meat of the game. It's just that first impressions from all the trailers, as well as secondhand info, makes it sound a little less imaginative than the first game.

To be fair, it really is a Tough Act to Follow.

You may turn yourself in to your local law enforcement agency at any time.

Bah, if it was a full OST I'd order the Special Edition in a heartbeat. I'mma have to think about this one. Although looking at Amazon its already sold out, in which case 1) it doesn't matter, 2) fuck people who work on the weekend amirite?, and 3) goddamnit Nintendo I thought we were done with this bullshit.

Although no other retailers have put it up yet, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

edited 29th Aug '15 11:43:23 PM by TheAirman

Out of curiosity: Does the Japanese Nintendo fanbase have no problems with Mario having little to no personality? I ask because I've heard people say that Mario has the personality of a box.

Mario has a canonical personality; there are scans floating around on the internet describing Mario's personality for licensing purposes. It just happens to be a very "everyman" personality — open-minded, friendly to people, intolerant of bullies, etc. — that it seems "boring" to people who need Totally Radical Kewl Attitudes.

—R.J.

People that say Mario has no personality only say that because he's not a fully developed character like everyone else is. Mario DOES have character to him, but it's very simplistic so that Nintendo can throw him into anything. In some of the RPG spinoffs, when you're prompted to give a response to an NPC, sometimes you can make Mario look like a dick with certain choices. "Let there be hot dogs!" anyone?

I'm perfectly fine with Mario being the way he is. The main platformers simply wouldn't do with a deep plot and fantastic characterization would be a bit of a waste there (although I loved Rosalina's backstory). The RPGs, on the other hand, can certainly use them but I'm fine with Mario being a stand-in for the player so that way we can be jerks.

I 100% agree with this.

If he must have a personality in the RPGs that isn't player dictated then I insist that it's like in Super Mario RPG where he was a bit of a jerk.

Outside of wanting to punch in the face of a brat kid (and man, that kid was asking for it), I don't re-call Super Mario Rpg Mario being a jerk.

I think Mario's personality is just a little too bland for my liking. I love Mario otherwise because that's the only issue I have with him.

Ain't nothing wrong with boxes.

edited 4th Sep '15 7:41:54 PM by BadWolf21

He can retrieve a guy's wallet from a thief but then refuse to give it back to him, or even go sell it. He can repeatedly bug a kid trying to play a Gameboy until he messes up and gets a game over. He can adamantly refuse to help Mallow out, making him cry. He can nose around in Peach's bedroom and find... something she wants kept hidden. He can ruin a wedding by jumping on the organ keyboard or onto the cake. And there's a few characters who react negatively to you jumping onto.

edited 4th Sep '15 7:53:56 PM by Anomalocaris20

Man. I forgot most of those. It's clearly been way too long since I played Super Mario Rpg

Oh, he can also deliberately overstay at the Marrymore hotel suite without having enough money to pay, but the owner will gladly get his revenge on you.

I re-call one time I refuse to tip the bellboy as well.

Yeah, it's all coming back to me now actually.

Yeah, you don't have to tip the bellboy.

Incidentally, if you get roped into working off the debt as a bellboy, the customers will rarely tip you either, and the previous bellboy seems pretty content to rub your predicament in your face.

Actually, the people that do tip you will give very rare items like Max Mushrooms and Flower Boxes, but that's all RNG of course.

Mario is also a dick to Yoshi in Yoshi's Safari; after clearing a level and seeing the high score, Mario fires his Super Scope at Yoshi for no reason whatsoever.

edited 4th Sep '15 8:21:16 PM by Steven

Yeah, but it's rare that they tip you at all. Sometimes you get a generous customer, but most of them just ignore you once you've shown them to their room.

I must have been lucky then. I once had to tend to 30 guests....>.>

You have to tend to one guest for every night you overstayed and couldn't afford.

I don't know what the upper limit on that is, though I can't imagine they'd let you work 30 customers.